November 30, 2008
Guillaume Depardieu: total eclipse of the son
He was the enfant terrible of French cinema. A tormented soul who inherited his famous father’s talent — along with his demons. It was a fatal combination that would send Guillaume Depardieu to an early grave
The story you are about to read is a tragedy of French cinema, a meditation on life, death and amputation, the love and hate between a father and son, and a young man of Paris who lived hard and fast and all too briefly.